The Swan Princess AU

An Agni Kai is meant to allow benders to defend their honor before Agni. It is the height of arrogance to presume you can call for his attention and not receive it. The moment Ozai lay his fiery hand to his son’s trembling face the boy dissolved in a shimmer of sunlight. In the chaos that follows nobody notices an extra turtleduck in the palace pond.

Years later a young monk washes up on a fire nation shore he finds he is not entirely alone. Sokka is deeply displeased with the scruffy half grown ‘enemy bird’ Aang insists is a ‘really good listener’. The thing is louder than any bird has a right to be and seems to lack any sense of self preservation. But Aang’s grown attached and even though they’re STARVING he won’t hear of turtleduck soup, also the thing’s beak is sharper than it looks, stop laughing Toph, he did not loose to a baby duck! It’s almost grown! And he just backed off for Aang’s sake.

This fic features adventures such as:

Aang’s pet duck helps him cheat on his tests at school.

The pollution is making the turtleduck sick, we have to fix it! (Tui & La Sokka! Why would a turtleduck FAKE being ill?)

Aang’s duck needs to be quiet so Sokka can focus on his practice! Maybe he doesn’t like your foot-work. He’s a duck! (A duck that doesn’t like your footwork)

Turtleducks disprove of swindling innocent fire nation citizens.

Turtleducks hate little old ladies, but they’re really good for the-person-I-was-supposed-to-be-able-to-trust-is-actually-evil cuddles.

A missing fire nation prince comes to aang in a dream.

Turtleducks are weirdly good at navigating enemy palaces.

Another vision prompts Aang to seek out dragons. He hopes they don’t eat his pet.

That was the low battery notification

who let biologists play dnd

Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

Yes. We all need a fucking break

Baby duck in a cup

(via)

Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!

Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.

Me, at 32, hacking the system and reading fanfic while at work : why am I still tired? 😭

"What made you follow your mutual" I don't know. I don't remember anything. In my mind we were mutuals at birth. Since the dawn of time. The start of the earth's spin

there are some headcanons where it's like. 'i would enjoy this as a light seasoning in fic but certain chunks of the fandom have become more committed to this than the actual canon and made it load-bearing in scenarios where it simply doesn't make sense'.

this came back on my dash and i’m thrilled to announce that when i checked the tags i saw that among the many documented grievances attached was someone else griping about the exact thing that spurred me to make this post. hello my comrade in exasperation may we all carry on from day to day

.║\ ║▒\ put this on your blog ║▒▒\ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ to show others ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ║░▒║ ▓▓▓▓▓ [█▓] [█▓] you are gay [█▓]

Question: why is a sword, a representation of being gay?

cause im gay and i like swords whats not to get

I went looking for this post specifically and only just realized that the op was the same person

you know an awful lot of people dont realise this actually. but rest assured if its about swords and being gay, there is a high chance i wrote it

All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"

Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"

"I mean, on the plus side, there's live rats in a lot of places, so the odds of you casting that spell within close enough range of a live rat to work is pretty high? Like, if you've ever had that spell just randomly fizzle out on you, then you tried it again ten minutes later without changing anything and it suddenly worked, a rat probably just wandered into range in that time."

disclaimer: spell does not work in Alberta

*sees a beloved mutual in the notes* hi honey

I am whatever gender has the shortest line at the bathroom

No need I think

​I see this one going places

Yeah. The bathroom

Characters that have never experienced affection before, or haven't experienced it in a long time, finally getting to experience it? Top tier.

Said character freezing up for a second, not really knowing how to respond, but not wanting it to stop? T o p t i e r.

Said character trying to clumsily return the affection in their own way, because this is Good and they don't want it to stop? T O P T I E R.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

it's worth noting that Strom Thurmond set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Cory Booker is one of only 14 Black people to ever serve in the US Senate.